Heroes and Villains Quotes

“What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom.
'Do you want the truth?'
She nodded.
'The firing squad.'
'That's not the whole truth. Try again.'
'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness.
'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.'
He was silent for several minutes.
'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.'
'Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?”
― Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains

“Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.”
― Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains

“ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of the grand design”
― Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains

“Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her.”
― Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains

“You're nothing but the furious invention of my virgin nights.”
― Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains

“Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation and reverted to chaos, existing only to themselves in an unstructured world where they were not formally acknowledged, becoming an ever-widening margin of undifferentiated and nameless matter surrounding the outposts of man, who no longer made himself familiar with these things or rendered the authentic in his experience by the gift of naming.”
― Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains

“He had become the sign of an idea of a hero; and she herself had been forced to impersonate the sign of a memory of a bride.”
― Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains

“Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation and reverted to chaos, existing only to themselves in an unstructured world . . . surrounding the outposts of man.”
― Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains